Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b8e9b4593c68d953…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.3 KB Created: 2021-09-07 14:08:21 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: ee04db6c40e5b10d4fbb16833a063819 SHA-1: b7e79c838eca745dc7b6d023151c58b87a956820 SHA-256: b8e9b4593c68d95346d12859ac6dae39af820567d0418cba39d91fd5ef0c340a
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, with numerous URLs pointing to compromised or disposable hosting. The presence of external URIs and link farms suggests an attempt to redirect users to malicious content, likely for phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9953

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • PDF link farm points to compromised-WordPress upload storage medium PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM
    PDF contains multiple clickable links, across many distinct hosts, whose targets are random-slug files parked in the upload directories of vulnerable WordPress form plugins (FormCraft, Super Forms). This is the hallmark of the 'free document/template' SEO phishing PDF family, which ranks for search queries and routes users into payload/redirect chains hosted on compromised sites. The PDF itself carries no exploit — the risk is the linked destinations.
  • Small PDF is a non-clustered link farm on disposable hosting medium PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM
    Small PDF contains many clickable external PDF links spread thin across many distinct hosts (no single dominant host), corroborated by a utm_term SEO-redirector link and/or links parked on free/disposable content hosts. This is the 'free document/template' SEO phishing PDF family, which ranks for search queries and routes users into payload/redirect chains, rather than a normal document citation pattern. The PDF itself carries no exploit — the risk is the linked destinations.
  • External URI info PDF_URI
    PDF contains an external URL action
  • Object number defined twice with different bodies info PDF_DUPLICATE_OBJ_BODY_INCREMENTAL
    The same indirect object (N G) is defined more than once with different body bytes. First-wins and last-wins readers will resolve different content, which is a parser-confusion shape used by targeted PDFs. Body-only differences are common in benign incremental updates, so severity is raised only when the duplicate carries active content.
  • Embedded URL info EMBEDDED_URL
    One or more URLs were extracted from the document. The URL itself is not a detection — see the per-URL labels for which channel (macro, JS, link annotation, document body, ...) reached each URL.
    URL http://favorit.pl/userfiles/file/tajag.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://accurateverdicts.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160beb3b901786---mugufe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nsfeed.com/_UploadFile/Images/file/mibub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kindytennis.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160abd61c858fd---kenarerur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.brightfieldbusinesshub.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cc4eb9egnuo9pkab3pjemrhgev/60881640273.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://plnjl.com/userfiles/files/12440438123.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://arcdesantmarti.com/biocop/Images/images-editor/file/66719172778.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://donghotam.com/luutru/files/wividuverevazowusorati.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.gasserbush.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5f0167a55af7a754d823532e8e2d5bcb/lusilupoteboxatufet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ankurgroups.com/userfiles/file/29478446578.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mission4recruitment.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bbe1ba848c2---83165778293.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sosnovgeo.ru/userfiles/file/13570130056.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uzmanwebci.com/calisma2/files/uploads/fogafemaxijasesawarumed.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aven.su/userfiles/file/sufag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.autodepotperformancegroup.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/kbltl5e2l9gudumt64f96cg26v/pulepiwix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nenkin-t.com/upload_img/ck/files/sesolixefemezakedukotet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rufullthrottle.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607a299d20351---34338016443.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://leicht-spb.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2ae8802db76aebbfbe9ab45588ffd3f8/36274573961.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.burit.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cce35adf4b---fopulenu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://earplighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/69a35bc0fa24af380fc67820ab4675e0/rejaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn-----6kcabagcgfjsxjciriy6alkh6a7aqk.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3a068a1776ecf3fe6b2acace085c23ea/61776841539.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chetanaus.org/bheru/uploadfiles/file/41286509181.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bahtiyardishekimi.com/fckfiles/file/43654032419.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shen-su.eu/gfx/userfiles/files/rozekoxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=wastewater+engineering+treatment+disposal+and+reuse+pdfPDF link annotation
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#In PDF document text
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/In PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000caf3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCAF3 17936 bytes
SHA-256: 5756726fc9846e96b1ef838c4c02514b649c3b3af63b99a82b1cd8804569ed26
font_01_sfnt_off0000f9c3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF9C3 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000111da.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x111DA 11020 bytes
SHA-256: 2a71a3a78f2151f2e4c590e5145e8fb8369ebfc4d9f09310f666c8120aefd2e2